The Last Juror, John Grisham
The Last Juror, John Grisham
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The Last Juror

Author: John Grisham

Narrator: Michael Beck

Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/03/2004


Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A newspaperman watches as former jurors drop like flies in this riveting legal thriller hailed as “classic Grisham, full of excitement and colorful characters” (The Denver Post).

“One of his best: a thoughtful and atmospheric thriller.”—The New York Times

In 1970, Willie Traynor comes to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old finds himself the owner of Ford County’s only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries. While the rest of America is in the grips of turmoil, Clanton lives on the edge of another age—until the brutal murder of a young mother rocks the town and thrusts Willie into the center of a storm.

Daring to report the true horrors of the crime, Willie makes as many friends as enemies in Clanton, and over the next decade he sometimes wonders how he got there in the first place. But he can never escape the crime that shattered his innocence or the criminal whose evil left an indelible stain. Because as the ghosts of the South’s past gather around Willie, as tension swirls around Clanton, men and women who served on a jury nine years ago are starting to die one by one—as a killer exacts the ultimate revenge.

About John Grisham

John Ray Grisham, Jr. was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 8, 1955. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and later from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He was a practicing criminal attorney for over ten years and then served in the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. He published his first novel in 1989 after working on it for five years. ‘A Time to Kill’, his first novel, launched his new career and was later made into a major motion picture. His first bestseller, ‘The Firm’, released in 1991, sold over seven million copies and was made into a box office hit starring Tom Cruise two years later. Almost twenty years later in 2012, a TV series was launched and picks up the life of Mitch McDeere and his family ten years after the events of the novel.

John Grisham has had his novels translated into more than forty languages and has sold nearly 300 million copies worldwide. He is a winner of the prestigious Galaxy British Book Award and is one of only three authors (the other two being Tom Clancy and J.K. Rowling) to ever sell two million copies of a first published novel. Nine of his novels (including ‘The Firm and ‘A Time to Kill’ have been made into major motion pictures.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on June 29, 2024

A savage rape of single-mother Rhoda Kassellaw, is perpetrated in sight and sound of her young children, before she is murdered by, rapist-murderer Danny Padgitt, a reckless and callous younger member of the Padgitt crime-family, the dominant and most powerful organised crime gang in the vicinity of......more

Goodreads review by Luvtoread (Trying to catch up) on February 09, 2020

Great read!!......more

Goodreads review by Suz on May 01, 2015

This was my second Grisham novel, but I was disappointed. The storyline was fine, I enjoyed the character of Willie, who saves the local newspaper in Mississippi in the 1970's, then begins to cover a sensational case of the brutal rape and murder of a young single mum. I ended up reading to finish,......more

Goodreads review by Karl on June 28, 2019

A great pleasure to read. A nice story with good atmosphere. As always, Grisham’s writing is witty and down to Earth.......more

Goodreads review by Jay on July 08, 2020

The first half of this book was about a rape/murder trial and conviction. Very well paced. The smaller middle section lacked any intensity and concerned various topics - primarily the workings of a small town Mississippi weekly newspaper. At this point I was on the fence with a 3 or 4 star rating and......more


Quotes

Praise for the novels of John Grisham

“John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we’ve got in the United States these days.”The New York Times Book Review

“In all of Grisham’s best books . . . the reader gets good company, a vigorous runaround and . . . a bit of a legal education.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“Grisham’s books are smart, imaginative, and funny, populated by complex, interesting people.”The Washington Post

“The law, by its nature, creates drama, and a new Grisham promises us an inside look at the dirty machineries of process and power, with plenty of entertainment.”Los Angeles Times

“John Grisham owns the legal thriller.” The Denver Post